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By Lindsay TravisUniversity of KentuckyA team of researchers at the University of Kentucky is working to better understand the impact of opioid-use disorder on mothers and babies.Every 24
UK doctor: ‘We’ve known for a long time there are consequences to perinatal opioid exposure, but why that’s happening is something we don’t fully understand.’
In Kentucky, roughly 20 of every 1,000 babies born in 2020 had symptoms of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. A team of UK researchers wants to understand how changes in the placenta from opioid use are linked to negative cognitive consequences in the baby.